Software and Controls Product Management Leader

Accountabilities:: Product Vision and Portfolio Strategy: Define and communicate a comprehensive product vision and portfolio strategy across software, controls, digital platforms, upgrades, and lifecycle solutions. Establish clear investment priorities and determine where to differentiate, partner, simplify, or discontinue offerings. Integrated Product Roadmap: Develop and govern a unified product roadmap that aligns customer priorities, technology developments, commercial opportunities, engineering capacity, product costs, quality objectives, and lifecycle requirements. Customer Insights and Market Intelligence: Leverage Voice of Customer (VOC) programs, customer councils, sales teams, service organizations, and regional stakeholders to understand customer challenges, expectations, and willingness to pay. Translate these insights into actionable product requirements and measurable outcomes. Innovation and Product Incubation: Partner with innovation and incubation teams to identify emerging opportunities, validate customer problems, test new concepts, and determine which initiatives should progress into minimum viable products (MVPs), pilots, strategic partnerships, or the core product portfolio. Market and Competitive Analysis: Continuously assess changing customer expectations, competitor offerings, emerging business models, and technological developments in software, artificial intelligence, automation, data, and connected control systems. Product Competitiveness and Financial Performance: Establish product cost and margin objectives, simplify configurations, reduce unnecessary product variations, and develop migration strategies that improve profitability, quality, customer value, and lifecycle economics. Product Launch and NPI Excellence: Lead the complete product lifecycle from concept development and MVP validation through pilot programs, industrialization, commercial launch, adoption, and post-launch evaluation. Establish clear decision gates, accountability structures, and measurable success criteria. Quality and Reliability Management: Integrate quality-by-design principles, First Time Right methodologies, Integrated Quality Plans, cybersecurity, and reliability requirements throughout product definition, development, release, and ongoing support. Commercial Growth and Partnerships: Collaborate with sales, services, finance, and business development teams to improve sales conversion, strengthen value propositions, expand recurring and multi-year revenue, and identify strategic partnership and growth opportunities. Product Organization Development: Build and strengthen a modern product management organization by clarifying responsibilities, developing talent, standardizing lifecycle practices, and implementing effective performance metrics and governance processes. Execution and Performance Improvement: Improve delivery predictability, product quality, speed to market, and overall Say/Do performance while reducing execution risks and accelerating time to customer value. Cross-Functional Leadership: Align engineering, product, commercial, operational, and financial stakeholders around shared portfolio priorities, strategic objectives, and enterprise-wide business outcomes. Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline is required; an advanced degree is preferred. Significant experience in product management and senior leadership roles within industrial software, controls, automation, energy, or related technology industries. Demonstrated success defining and executing product strategies and managing complex portfolios from initial concept and development through commercialization and lifecycle management. Strong understanding of industrial software, digital platforms, automation technologies, connected control systems, and mission-critical technology solutions. Proven ability to translate customer insights, market intelligence, and emerging technology trends into differentiated product strategies and commercially successful solutions. Experience developing and managing integrated product roadmaps, investment priorities, product requirements, and performance objectives. Demonstrated experience collaborating with engineering and innovation teams to transform early-stage concepts into validated MVPs, pilots, and scalable commercial products. Strong understanding of product economics, including pricing strategies, cost optimization, margin management, recurring revenue models, and lifecycle profitability. Experience driving product launches, new product introduction (NPI), industrialization, and post-launch performance improvement. Knowledge of quality management, reliability engineering, cybersecurity, and risk management principles within industrial technology environments. Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders within complex, global, matrixed organizations. Strong commercial and strategic mindset, with the ability to connect technical decisions to customer value and measurable business performance. Excellent financial, analytical, and decision-making capabilities, including the ability to evaluate competing priorities and make difficult strategic trade-offs. Outstanding communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical and business challenges. Proven leadership capabilities, including talent development, team empowerment, constructive challenge, and the ability to build alignment across diverse teams. Customer-focused approach, with strong listening skills and the ability to distinguish meaningful market signals from isolated feedback. Practical understanding of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, software platforms, data analytics, and connected controls. Adaptability, curiosity, and a forward-thinking mindset, with a strong commitment to innovation and continuous improvement. Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Employment is subject to successful completion of applicable pre-employment screening requirements. Benefits: Competitive annual base salary ranging from $248,000 to $372,000, depending on experience, education, qualifications, and relevant skills. Eligibility for a discretionary annual performance bonus. Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage. Access to a 24/7 nurse-based health support resource and personalized health coaching. Employee Assistance Program offering confidential assessment, counseling, and referral services available 24/7. Retirement benefits through a 401(k) savings plan with company matching and additional company retirement contributions. Access to specialized executive financial services. Tuition assistance and opportunities for continued professional education. Adoption assistance and paid parental leave. Short-term and long-term disability benefits. Life insurance coverage. 12 paid holidays annually. Permissive time off to support work-life balance. Additional retirement savings opportunities through a Restoration Plan for eligible compensation above IRS limits. Remote working arrangement, with the position also associated with locations in Longmont, Greenville, Atlanta, and Schenectady. Opportunities for professional development, career advancement, and leadership growth. Collaborative and innovative working environment with exposure to global technology and energy transformation initiatives. Opportunity to influence strategic product decisions and contribute to the development of next-generation industrial software and control solutions.